The Pentecostal Mission (TPM) or New Testament Church (NTC) formerly known as Ceylon Pentecostal Mission (CPM), is a pentecostaldenomination which originated in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka. In some countries, the church is known under slightly different names. The international headquarters is now situated in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It has around 2,500,000 members worldwide over 65 nations. This mission was founded in Colombo, Sri Lanka in 1923 by a Hindu convert, Ramankutty - later known as Pastor Paul. It now has churches (or Faith Homes) in many parts of Sri Lanka, as well as India, Nepal, Malaysia, USA, Canada, Europe, Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, France, New Zealand, the Caribbean Islands and the Middle East.
Worldwide, there are branches in Brazil, Ecuador, Zambia, Rwanda, Guinea, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Mauritius, Jamaica, Seychelles, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Guadeloupe, Nicaragua, South Africa, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Honduras and Dubai.

University of Birmingham, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 6LQ, UK ... Pentecostal churches all over the world were missionary by nature, and the dichotomy ... the Pentecostalism today has many lessons for the universal church in its mission.

UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH, founded in 1945 in Hazelwood, Missouri
UNITED PENTECOSTAL COUNCIL OF ... OF THE CROSS CHURCHES OF
CHRIST OF THE APOSTOLIC FAITH, founded in 1974 in Virginia THE UNIVERSAL ...

This book is about a church with little obvious appeal that has been phenomenally successful in attracting followers in post-apartheid South Africa. Unlike most other churches, the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) insists that its members' relationship with God be devoid of "emotions", that socialisation between members ...

This is not to say that AGA churches did not have their own liturgy, even if they
would not themselves use the term. ... In Pentecostal churches, the notion of universal baptism in the Spirit makes it possible for every member of the
assembly to ...

UK: Prof Max Turner; Prof Andrew Walker. USA: Dr Siegfried Schatzmann"Here, at last, is a scholarly and comprehensive account of Pentecostal theology from one of this tradition's leading scholars. It is written in an engaging style and presented in a balanced and non-polemical manner. Warrington has achieved what has not been done before:...

Others who attended a Dutch territorial parish church and the Pentecostal church
for a period of time respectively, made the following comments, “At first my parish
was X [name of territorial parish]. Why I left X was that when you go there it was ...

A study of the doctrine of salvation in the United Pentecostal Church and its immediate historical antecedents with a focus on the Pentecostal Church, Incorporated and prominent ministers such as Goss, Greer, Yadon, Gurley, Jacques, Stairs, Wickens and Paterson.

body with approximately 20 million affiliates, the next five largest Protestant
denominations (with 1.8 million adherents or more) in Brazil are independent and
indigenous Pentecostal denominations like the Universal Church of the Kingdom
of ...

The focus of this book is Brazilian Pentecostalism and, in particular, the way that it has thrived in the poorest urban neighborhoods. Its success has exceeded that of the political liberationists, whose radical intellectual message is quite meaningless to people struggling for daily survival. This analysis by Shaull (ecumenics, Princeton Seminary)...

These Pentecostal churches in the north-east of India are affiliated to The Universal Pentecostal Church of the U.K. and the New Testament Church of the
United States. The Revival movement is said to have arrived in Kohima in the late
1950s.

The practice and discipline of development was founded on the belief that religion was not important to development processes. As societies developed and modernised, it was assumed that they would also undergo a process of secularisation. However, the prominence of religion in many countries and its effects on people's social, political and ec...

Bankruptcy makes strange bedfellows--in this case, it could bring together Downtown developer Meruelo Maddux and a Brazilian Pentecostal church with a sordid past. Blogdowntown reports that the developer, which...

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By Jane NambiThe Pentecostal church in Angola has been suspended for a period of 60 days after the country suffered the death of 16 people and about 120 hurt. Citadela Desportiva Stadium where the stampede took place in Angola.